Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Israel and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Heaven 17 to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Malaria!,
Brothers Johnson,
A Certain Ratio,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Monks,
Negative Approach,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kayak,
Iggy Pop,
In Retrospect,
Reagan Youth,
Agent Orange,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeff Lynne,
Mission of Burma,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Massinfluence,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Normal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mad Mike,
Altered Images,
Cal Tjader,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Names,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gil Scott Heron,
Trumans Water,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Selecter,
Desert Stars,
Bobby Byrd,
Au Pairs,
FM Einheit,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobby Sherman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rufus Thomas,
Aswad,
Fatback Band,
Slave,
Colin Newman,
Ronan,
The Dead C,
John Foxx,
Joe Smooth,
Subhumans,
Kenny Larkin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Moss Icon,
David McCallum,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donny Hathaway,
Cymande,
Thee Headcoats,
Supertramp,
Nils Olav,
Hashim,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.